NRA propose armed guards for every US school

A week on from the massacre at Sandy Hook, NRA President Wayne LaPierre
proposes putting armed guards in every US school as a way to combat future
attacks.

5:31PM GMT 21 Dec 2012

At a chaotic press conference across the road from the White House, the NRA dismissed growing calls for a ban on assault weapons as a "dangerous notion" and warned that America's children were "utterly defenceless" in their classrooms.

Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, made clear his organisation would oppose efforts to bring in the first reform of gun controls laws in nearly two decades and instead called for a national database of the mentally unwell.

The NRA, widely considered the most powerful lobby group in the US, took no questions during their first press conference since the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school that left 20 children dead.

Mr LaPierre called on Congress to create a "national shield" of armed security guards in every single school in America by the time classes resume in January.

Their representatives were twice interrupted by protesters who cried out: "The NRA has blood on its hands. Ban assault weapons now."